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The case for safe skin bleaching
Skin bleaching tends to attract a negative press for a whole host of reasons. But when used to treat medical problems, its positive side becomes clear.
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Heating up and drying out
Menopause doesn’t have to signify old age, but when your body feels like it’s letting you down, it’s hard not to believe that your useful life may be over.
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The ambivalence of air
Daisy Lafarge investigates the effects of air quality and pressure on body and mind, exploring air as cure, but one with contradictions.
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Chinese C18 woodcut: External eye - Blepharitis
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Leçons professées pendant le premier semestre de l'année 1883-84 / par M. Cornil ; et recueillies par MM. Berlioz [and others].
Cornil, Victor André, 1837-1908.Date: 1884- Books
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Tables used in the course of lectures on the theory and practice of surgery : delivered at Guy's Hospital, during the session 1853-1854 / by Alfred Poland.
Poland, Alfred, 1822-1872.Date: 1854- Digital Images
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Calendula officinalis L. Asteraceae. Pot marigold, common marigold, ruds or ruddles. Calendula, because it was said to flower most commonly at the first of each month - the 'calends' (Coles, 1657). officinalis indicates that it was used in the 'offices' - the clinics - of the monks in medieval times. Annual herb. Distribution: Southern Europe. The Doctrine of Signatures, indicated that as the flowers resembled the pupil of the eye (along with Arnica, Inula and the ox-eye daisy), it was good for eye disorders (Porta, 1588). Coles (1658) writes '... the distilled water ... helpeth red and watery eyes, being washed therewith, which it does by Signature, as Crollius saith'. Culpeper writes: [recommending the leaves] '... loosen the belly, the juice held in the mouth helps the toothache and takes away any inflammation, or hot swelling being bathed with it mixed with a little vinegar.' The petals are used as a saffron substitute - ‘formerly much employed as a carminative
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Left foot, with inflammation, infection and decomposition of skin around nails in a 73-year old woman with Raynaud's phenomenon, coronary disease and peripheral arterial disease. Watercolour by Barbara E. Nicholson, 1947.
Nicholson, BarbaraDate: 1947Reference: 32217iPart of: Barbara Nicholson medical illustration collection.